23 March 2026
Webinar: “Socioeconomic drivers of farmer participation in tricot-based millet innovation systems in northeast Nigeria”, 2 April
Join us for our 22nd webinar in the 1000FARMS series. In this session, we’ll hear from Dr Jidda Umar, Chief Research Officer and Head of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Nigeria. Dr Umar will present findings from a multi-location study examining what drives farmer participation in decentralized varietal evaluation […]
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06 March 2026
Webinar: “Listening to farmers – capturing trait preferences through audio interviews in tricot trials,” 19 March
Join us for our 21st webinar in the 1000FARMS series. In this session, we’ll hear from Maria Delfine, Research Consultant with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. She will present findings from a pilot study in Rwanda exploring the use of audio-based interviews to capture farmers’ reasoning about trait preferences in tricot trials.
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16 January 2026
Webinar: “Gender dynamics and socio-cultural factors shaping farmers’ participation and decision-making in tricot on-farm trials across five states in Nigeria’s Savanna region”, 22 January
Join us for our 20th webinar in the series where we’ll hear from Dr Sanni Abdulrahman, who will present findings on how gender dynamics and socio-cultural factors shape farmers’ participation and decision-making in tricot on-farm trials across five states in Nigeria’s Savanna region.
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09 January 2026
Webinar: “Standard Operating Procedures as scientific infrastructure for scalable participatory breeding”, 14 January
Join us for our 19th webinar in the 1000FARMS series where we’ll hear from Almendra Cremaschi on how Standard Operating Procedures function as foundational scientific infrastructure for large-scale, decentralised on-farm trials within the tricot approach.
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15 December 2025
Webinar: “Exploring participation in citizen science for leadership identity development and food systems leadership: A case study of tricot”, 18 December
Join us for a webinar with Dr Bolanle Adebayo, who will share her research on how participation in citizen science contributes to leadership identity development and food systems leadership, using a tricot study carried out in Osun State, Nigeria.
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09 December 2025
Webinar: “Building horizontal networks of trust – research into the motivations of crop users to join tricot as on-farm researchers”, 11 December
Why do farmers choose to participate as citizen scientists in tricot on-farm trials and how can their motivations support more equitable, trust-based collaboration? Find out from our next webinar with Béla Teeken and Anna Müller.
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27 November 2025
Webinar: “Consumer-centric breeding – extending tricot as a participatory tool for mapping cassava trait preferences”, 4 December
Join us for our 16th webinar, where speaker Dr Cynthia Idhigu Aghogho will explore how the tricot participatory method, originally designed for farmer evaluations, was adapted to map consumer preferences for cassava quality traits.
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10 November 2025
Webinar: “Tricot experience in Nigeria with groundnut, pearl millet & sorghum”, 13 November
Join us for our 15th webinar, where speakers Dr Rekiya O. Abdulmalik and Dr Maryam A. Dawud will share how the tricot approach engaged farmers to evaluate elite sorghum, pearl millet, and groundnut genotypes across Nigeria’s drylands.
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03 November 2025
New article: “Examining gendered cassava trait preferences through commercial seed business: A case study of IITA GoSeed and Umudike Seeds in Nigeria”
A new article has been published on gendered cassava trait preferences based on a case study of IITA GoSeed and Umudike Seeds.
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16 October 2025
Webinar: “Breeding for social impact: Mapping cassava trait preferences through citizen science and farming typologies”, 23 October
Join us for our 14th webinar, where Dr Béla Teeken will discuss how citizen science and farmer typologies can steer cassava breeding toward real-world impact.
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